CVE-2006-5295

Clamav vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

10.7%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

Unspecified vulnerability in ClamAV before 0.88.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (scanning service crash) via a crafted Compressed HTML Help (CHM) file that causes ClamAV to "read an invalid memory location."

Affected vendor

Clam Anti Virus

Affected product

Clamav

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Published

2006-10-16

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 10.7% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-5295.
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